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| 3266554252 | Ballad | poem or narrating a story in short stanzas | 0 | |
| 3266557538 | Stanza | a group of lines forming the metric unit in a poem; a verse | 1 | |
| 3266570607 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 2 | |
| 3266571605 | Lament | a passionate expression of grief or sorrow | 3 | |
| 3266589920 | Sonnet | poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line | 4 | |
| 3266598381 | Villanelle | 19 line poem w/ 2 rhymes throughout, consisting of 5 tercets and a quatrain, with the 1st and 3rd lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the cncluding quatrain | 5 | |
| 3266605531 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate lines | 6 | |
| 3266609771 | Lyric | emotional rhyming poem, a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines | 7 | |
| 3266615370 | Personification | the attribution of human traits or character to animals or inanimate objects | 8 | |
| 3266621489 | Consonance | repetition of conconant sounds either at the end, beginning, or in the middle of words | 9 | |
| 3266622551 | Simile | comparing 2 things with like or as | 10 | |
| 3266624176 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statement for emphasis | 11 | |
| 3266624974 | Oxymoron | 2 terms contradict one another | 12 | |
| 3266626157 | Metaphor | Compares 2 things by replacing the word or name of an object with that of another (no like or as) | 13 | |
| 3266630210 | Allusion | refers to a well-known story, event, or person to make a comparison | 14 | |
| 3266631154 | Satire | mocks social conventions, or anything the author thinks is ridiculous | 15 | |
| 3266634614 | Romanticism | emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual | 16 | |
| 3266639097 | Naturalism | based on accurate depiction of detail | 17 | |
| 3266639099 | Realism | portrayal of life accurately | 18 | |
| 3266640328 | Classicism | harmony, restraint, adherence to recognized standards | 19 | |
| 3266643161 | Existentialism | individual persons are responsible in determining their own development | 20 | |
| 3266646734 | Caesura | pause in a line of poetry formed by rhyms of natural speech rather than metrics, occurs near middle of the line, beginning, or end, masculine or feminine | 21 | |
| 3266654193 | Apostrophe | alludes to something that isn't present | 22 | |
| 3266655365 | Spondees | metric foot consisting of 2 long (stressed) syllables | 23 | |
| 3266661617 | Internal Rhymes | 2 or more rhyming words occur within the same line or: 2 or more in the middle of separate lines | 24 | |
| 3266666189 | Conceit | extended metaphor w/ complex logic | 25 | |
| 3266671208 | Blank Verse | poem w/ no rhyme, has iambic pentameter | 26 | |
| 3266675148 | Iambic Pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity. | 27 | |
| 3266678294 | Parable | conveys a meaning indirectly by comparison, analogy | 28 | |
| 3266685035 | Enjambment | running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a break | 29 | |
| 3266689561 | Jargon | characterized by pretentious vocabulary (often vague) | 30 | |
| 3266691299 | Cacophony | discordant or meaningless mixture of sounds | 31 | |
| 3266713740 | Epigrams | short, usually satirical poem, single subject & ending with a witty turn of thought | 32 | |
| 3266719713 | Quatrains | poem w/ 4 lines and alternate rhymes | 33 | |
| 3266719714 | Metonymy | name of 1 subject used for another which is related | 34 | |
| 3266723795 | Synecdoche | a part represents a whole r special for general (ten sails- ten ships) | 35 | |
| 3266727760 | Onomatopoeia | formation of a word made by imitation of a sound (cuckoo) | 36 |
